Backlash over Burnley MP Kitty Ussher’s £20,000 decorations claim

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There is, it seems, a problem. “It’s going to be wet all day,” says the Labour activist, who had agreed to take The Times canvassing in Burnley but is now backing out. Embarrassed, he then admits the party’s local agent has ordered the invitation to be withdrawn. “He says it can’t do us any good. It’s this expenses thing . . .”

In Burnley, the “expenses thing” includes Kitty Ussher’s taste in interior decoration as laid out in a letter from her to the Commons Fees Office, claiming about £20,000 to renovate her London home. She wrote: “Most of the ceilings have Artex